Gold Coast development: New tower planned for Broadbeach’s St Kilda Ave
A tower with picture-perfect views of the beach and parkland is being proposed for a site smaller than many suburban house blocks.
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A TOWER with picture-perfect views of the beach and parkland has been unveiled.
The slim 21-storey high-rise is earmarked for a 607 sqm site on Broadbeach’s St Kilda Ave, a short distance from the $1 billion Jewel towers and overlooking Cascade Gardens.
The 60-unit project, put forward by Kilda Ave Property Trust, is being progressed because it is now “economically feasible”.
It would sit just a handful of metres from the proposed 41-storey Rosewood tower earmarked for a site on the corner of Gold Coast Highway and Rosewood Ave.
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Plans filed with the Gold Coast City Council reveal it will have:
• Six storeys of serviced apartments on lower levels.
• A recreation deck on the seventh level with a pool, outdoor terraces and a function room.
• 11 levels of residential apartments.
• A single-level “pavilion” with two three bedroom units.
• A penthouse with a single three- bedroom apartment.
• A rooftop terrace.
• A “fully automated” basement carparking system.
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The serviced apartments on the lower floors will mostly be one and two-bedroom units.
“The most recent plans for the proposed development site has been considered in the design of this proposed development,” the planning report said.
“This was done to try and ensure the prosed development’s setbacks and use was generally consistent with the previously approved development while providing a residential project which is now economically feasible to build.
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“During the design process of this proposed development there was also reasonable consideration given to other recently approved high density high-rises in the immediate area to the subject site.”
It comes five years after the most recent attempt to develop the site.
In 2014 a development application was filed for a nine-level, 16 unit project which failed to eventuate.
The site was cleared 12 years ago in anticipation of a seven-level tower which also failed to progress in the wake of the global financial crisis.
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